Herman Van Rompuy
Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council (born 1947)
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Born 1947 · age 79
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He held the prime ministership of Belgium for less than a year before the European Council tapped him for a newly invented job: the EU's first full-time president, a role created by the Lisbon Treaty to give the union a single continuous face at the top.
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Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy was born 31 October 1947 and rose through Belgium's Christian Democratic and Flemish party to become the country's 49th prime minister on 30 December 2008. That tenure lasted eleven months. On 19 November 2009, the European Council selected him as the first permanent president of the European Council under the freshly ratified Treaty of Lisbon, a position that had never existed before. He took office 1 January 2010, was re-elected in March 2012 for a second term, and served until 30 November 2014. In 2019 he became chairman of the board of the College of Europe…
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